Discover the secret commands of Excel 2007

All applications that make up the Office suite, starting with Excel, accept orders placed as a parameter to launch. These commands fix the application or impose a specific launch, different from the default. It can solve some critical problems that result in a systematic Excel crash on startup.


The commands which launches are the commands that alter the normal start of the application. These commands are often expressed in one or more letters preceded by the sign "/".

To use them, two possibilities:

- Launch Microsoft Word from the Run menu, by pressing [Windows] + [R], and then typing:
EXCEL/command

- Launch Word 2007 from the Start menu of Vista or Windows 7 by opening the menu with a brief pressure on the [Windows] and typing in the search field:
EXCEL/command


The available commands are:

- EXCEL/safemode (or EXCEL/s)
Very handy when Excel fails to launch or crashes erratically, this command orders the spreadsheet to launch in a mode "without fail", in which Excel does not support any extension, no macro and no configuration file in the folder XLStart.

- EXCEL name_of_file.xls
Launches Excel asking to automatically load the file specified as parameter. Very useful to create an icon for Excel always loading the same table in some alternative or launch a macro in another application of the Office suite.

- EXCEL/e
Start Excel without displaying the Welcome screen (the "splash-screen") and without blank workbook open.

- EXCEL/p Folder Path
Start Excel by requiring the use of the folder as the default folder. This command is very useful to create several shortcuts in Excel for each project you work on making sure that Excel uses the default folder in the project said.

- EXCEL/m
Starts Excel and ordered a new workbook contant not only XLM macro sheet.

- EXCEL/r name_of_file.xls
Starts Excel and request automatic loading of the specified file but Excel up mode "write".

- EXCEL/a progID
Starts Excel and loads the extension ("add-in") specified by the Automation ProgID the extension.

For example: EXCEL/a MyProgId.MyProgID2.1